Garment supporter



Jan. 31, 1928. 1,657,906

c. L. STRAUSS GARMENT SUPPORTER Filed March 9. 1926 4 iii Patented Jan. 31, 1928 UNITED STATES CAROL L. STRAUSS, OF BANGOR, MAINE.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

Application filed March 9,

This invention consists of apinless grip for a detachable hose supporter or shoulder strap or similar device.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention with both members engaged.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the griping member.

Figure 3 is a front View of the gripped member.

Figure 4 is a front view of both members engaged.

Figure 5 is a front view of both members being partially engaged or partially disengaged. L

Figure 6 shows a front view of a modified form of grip-ping member.

Figure 7 shows a front view of such modlfied member with the gripped member being disengaged.

The gripped member consists of a metal plate 1, preferably of substantially the width of the elastic of the hose supporter, bent over the end of the elastic 2 and firmly attached thereto by a series of punched portions 3, 3.

As here shown the front portion 4 of the plate 1 .is slightly wider than the elastic 2 and the back portion 5 of the plate 1 is the same width as the front but shorter. The back portion 5 may, however, be narrower than the front portion.

The gripping portion consists of an elongated loop or ring 6 the interior of which is sofitted to the gripped portion that the gripped portion cannot draw through the loop except when presented thereto endwise. This gripping portion should have an interior long diameter substantially identical with the width of the elastic 2 of the gripped member. As here shown the long diameter may be slightly less than the width of the front portion 4 of the plate 1. The short diameter should be slightly less than the thickness of the gripped member from front to back.

The gripping member is attached to a corst or other garment in any suitable manner, as by a cloth strip'7, to which it is sewed.

In practice the lower portion of the gripped member will spring outward sllghtly and is shown as bowed out. It Wlll be seen that when the two members are engaged as in Figure 1 the strain of the elastic will draw the gripped member downward at the front so that the outward portion "of the 192s. Serial No. 93,492.

gripping member will be held under the end of the gripped portion and close to the elastic so as to be free from any -chance of disengagement.

The members are engaged by slipping the gripped member endwise through the gripping -member as shown in Figure 5, the spring of the gripping member being sufficient to permit such engagement.

In Figures 6 and 7 I have shown a modification of my invention. The gripping member is shown as made of a comparatively rigid plate having anotched portion 8 at one side through which the gripped member may be passed endwise.

In this specification the extent of the plate from a to a, Fig. 3, is for convenience called the width and its extent from front to back the thickness and the other dimension the length. v

The gripped member may be reversed so that the front portion 4 will be next to the body of the wearer, thus decreasing the chance of accidental detachment when the wearer is sitting. In that case, I refer to make the front plate flat or bowed-1n slight- 1y rather than bowed-out.

I claim 1. An attaching device for a hose supporter having a gripping member having an oblong looped portion, and a gripped member adapted to be passed through the opening endwise only, said gripped member consisting of a strip of hose-supporting fabric having bent over the end thereof a metal plate attached to said fabric at a point above the lower edge of the plate so as to form an en-,

gaging tongue, said plate in cross section being approximately the same as the short interior diameter of the loop of the gripping member and in width being greater than the longest interior dimension of the grippingmember said gripping member conslsting of a'loop of wire having a long interior diameter not materially greater than the width of the hose supporting fabric and a short interior diameter through which the gripped member may be passed endwise only, one side of said gripping member being permanently attached, as by stitching, to the supporting garment.

2. -An attaching device for a garment supporter consistingof a metal end plate attached to the top ofthe hose supporting fabric so as to provide an overhanging lip,

said plate being slightly wider than the hose supporting fabric, an oblong metal loop secured to the supporting element having interior dimensions slightly larger than the hose supporting fabric, and so proportioned with reference to the end plate that said end plate may be passed through the loop endwise but not sidewise and so that under the strain of wear the overhanging tongue will be hooked over the lower edge of said loop and bear against it.

3. An attaching device for a hose supporter consisting of an oblong loop of metal adapted to be secured permanently, as by stitching, to the garment to which the supporter is to be attached constituting the gripping member and a gripped member consisting of a plate as wide as the supporting elastic and longer than the short interior diameter of the loop, said plate being attached permanently to the top of the hose.

supporting fabric and forming the upper end thereof, said gripping loop having its longest interior dimension less than the width'of the plate and as great as the width of the supporting elastic and an interior short diameter less than the length of the plate and great enough to permit the plate to be passed through it endwise whereby, when engaged, the gripped plate bears against the lower part of the gripping loop and is supported thereby.

4. An attaching device for a hose supporter having a gripping member having an oblong looped portion, and a detachable gripped member adapted to be passed, and re-passed through the loop endwise only, said gripped member consistingof a metal plate bent over the end of a strip of hose supporting fabric attached to said fabric at a point above the lower edge of the plate so as to, form an engaging tongue, said plate being a iiproximately as thick as the short interior diameter of the loop of the gripping member and in width being greater than the longest interior dimension of the gripping member, said gripping member consisting of a loop of wire having a long interior diameter not materially greater than the width of the hose supporting fabric and a short interior diameter less than the length of the plate through which the plate may be passed endwise, one side of said gripping member being adapted to be permanently attached, as by stitching, to the supporting garment.

In testimony whereof, I have name to this specification.

CAROL L. STRAUSS.

signed my 

